Middle School

Holy Rosary - Wea Catholic School

We have long recognized the many benefits of incorporating a garden into our curriculum at school.

First, we hope to utilize our garden as the centerpoint for our Wellness Plan. It will provide so many hands on opportunities to continue our teaching about healthy eating and physical activity. It will help reinforce our Power Panther program, "Eat Smart, Play Hard" , by involving all of our students in planning, creating, maintaining, and harvesting our garden.

Guadalupe Montessori School

The goal of the GMS garden is to grow fresh produce for our school's lunch program, provide educational and enrichment opportunities for the school and the community, and to market excess produce and create value added products to support the garden.

Our goal for this grant is to purchase the materials and build a production greenhouse. This project would have benefits both for the school and for the community.

Grant Middle School

The goals of the gardening project are to expand the raised bed gardening areas; produce additional vegetables that will be used by the BIP students and in the after school Cooking Venture and grow vegetables, flowers and herbs for the Spring Growers Market. The gardening project will also serve as an outdoor classroom for the BIP and Cooking Venture students to learn about geology, water, plant life cycles, native plants, measurements, cooking and life skills such as cooperation and problem solving.

This program is supported by Youth Development, Inc - YDI.

Beechcroft High School

The mission of the community garden is: The Good Seed Community Garden is an effort put forth by both our church and the community members of Sharon Woods to unify and celebrate our neighborhood.

Since its inception, the Good Seed Community Garden has been partnering with the students at Beechcroft High School. Their service learning projects have enriched the community and the school, bringing fresh ideas and beautiful additions to the space.

W.T.Cooke Elementary School

Our main focus will be on sustainability through gardening, reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students will get to experience the pleasures of planning, growing, and consuming their own fresh vegetables and of producing, through the work of their own hands, food for others. They will also begin to understand the possibilities of recycling by transforming things that were considered trash into usable objects and valuable compost. We will make it a goal this year to use recycled or reclaimed items where ever possible.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

Roaring Fork High School

Goals: teach youth how to grow food, prepare it, eat well & carry this knowledge home to their families to improve health; create a model project environmental for our high altitude region to grow food year round with a low carbon footprint; provide food to high school lunch program; & create a collaborative, hands-on education model to spread this education to all ages. In 2013 the college will use our orchard to teach Sustainable Agriculture and create a forest garden permaculture model.

El Colegio Charter School

The goal of this garden is two-fold: for students to take the lead at all levels of production, including design, maintenance, and harvesting, as a means of connecting food cultivation with learning, healthy living, and leadership. Secondly, many members of our community have immigrated and wish to preserve traditions of land cultivation as well as maintain connection with our youth. The garden is a space for young people and the community to engage in a process of co-learning and cultural retention.

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